MRS. SELLERS RETURNS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 667, 20 May 1929, Page 11

MRS. SELLERS RETURNS

EXPECTED HUSBAND TO BE WAITING IS “ASTOUNDED” “Far too much has been made of this affair. 1 expected my husband to be waiting, and am astounded at what I hear.” The speaker was Mrs. Donald Sel- i Jers, who was interviewed on the Niagara this afternoon after a confer-1 "nca with her solicitor. She has re- i turned from Fiji, where she left the j Aorangi on its last Vancouver trip | and is leaving immediately for New Plymouth, where her relatives will meet her. \ week or two ago the Union Company and the Auckland police were j pusaled by advice from the liner ' Aorangi that Mrs. Sellers, who was a j passenger, was without her ticket; r also that her husband had missed the j boat. UNUSUAL CASE The unusual nature of the case ! became apparent when Mr. Sellers 1 failed to report in Auckland. A search was instituted, but no I trace of the missing man was discovered until the Union Company received advice from Wellington that a passenger named Sellers had sailed for Sydney by the Maunganui, three days after the Aorangi left Auckland. Sellers, a sawmiller, aged 36, resided at New Plymouth. Two weeks ago lie and his wife travelled to Auckland with the intention of catching the Aorangi. Tickets were purchased and the couple visited a photographer where the necessary passport photograph of >trs. Sellers was taken. Sellers did npt pose for the camera, saying he wpuld use a photograph taken four years ago. LETTER WAITING According to the story told by Mrs. Seilers on the Niagara today a sum of money was withdrawn from a bank for the use of the travellers. This was kept by Sellers, but Mrs. Sellers had £3O of her own, otherwise she would have been stranded when her husband disappeared. The couple then boarded the 'Aorangi. after which Mrs. Sellers missed him. She has not seen him since. When the Aorangi had put to sea Mrs. Sellers reported the absence of her husband and explained that she had no ticket. Accordingly arrangements were made for her to disembark at Suva, where she waited for the Niagara. ( Mrs. Sellers was informed today that a letter from her husband was awaiting her at New Plymouth. In the hope that it will explain to her the whole position she is hurrying South at once.